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MOM & POPism exhibition
Even with street art reaching new standards and popularity over the past few years, we’re still yet to be convinced about the true merits of graffiti.
That said, this latest exhibition from photographer couple and author of Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, James and Karla Murray, looks set to challenge our opinion.
Entitled MOM and POPism and located on the roof of online media company Gawker Media's HQ in New York, the show highlights the changing face of New York City in a unique symbiosis of street art and photography.
The exhibition consists of a series of close to life-size photographic canvases shot by the Murray’s of a variety of ethnic, time-worn store fronts from New York’s various neighborhoods. The expansive canvases have then been left to a variety of graffiti artists including Blanco, Cake, Lady Pink and Zoltron, to deface at their leisure.
The result is an energetic synthesis of painting, photography, collage and graffiti. Combining the high-shine cartoon aesthetic of the street art with the grubby true-to-life look of the storefronts.
The show is an understated critique of New York City’s ever-altering façade and the places, people and artists that have shaped its creative culture - a culture which James and Karla Murray believe to be slowly slipping away at the hands of neglect and homogeny.
For more information or to request a viewing appointment please contact artists@gawker.com.
PLOT09: This World and Nearer Ones
Until August 31, 2009
Creative Time is pleased to announce its new public art quadrennial: PLOT, taking place on historic Governors Island and featuring international artists responding to the island with new, sire-responsive artworks. The first edition of PLOT, This World & Nearer Ones, is curated by Mark Beasley. The project is produced in association with Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, the National Park Service, NYC & Company, and the Office of the Mayor. The first edition, entitled This World & Nearer Ones, will be curated by Mark Beasley. PLOT09 will draw thousands to Governors Island to explore the artwork and numerous other public programs. PLOT09 is free and open to the public.
Governors Island, NY
creativetime.org
The Deeper They Bury Me, The Louder My Voice Becomes
Until 10/11/09Provides a sensory experience, highlighting the confinement of a kind of “non-space” in the museum and challenging visitors with views that mimic those confronting over two million prisoners in the United States, home to the world’s largest penal system. This installation steers the viewer to an unfamiliar place—such as a restricted prison cell—to allow individual contemplation as well as the possibility of a collective conversation about the underlying politics of our justice system. Wallace’s words, reiterated in the title of Rigo 23’s new work, reverberate between the narrow walls of the Shaft Project Space, but also extend beyond the confines of the New Museum to alert the public to the plight of political prisoners worldwide.
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
White Noise: This larky conglomerate shows you how rich this flirtation between the senses is
A group exhibition featuring works that exist at the intersection of visual art, music and sound by artists of different generations. In the exhibition, there will be sounds to be looked at and objects to be heard. It will explore how sound can obliterate as well as elevate; how silence can involve both absence and presence. Until August 12th.
James Cohan Gallery
533 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001
nr. Tenth Ave.
"The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women"
A group exhibition of women artists depicting the female form. With this premise, the show seeks to present a collection of works which reclaim the traditional domination of the "male gaze" and reorient the significance of the female figure to allow for more varied interpretations. A variety of mediums will be shown —sculpture, photography, video, painting and installation—and several different women artists represented, including: Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Kathe Burkhart, Julia Margaret Cameron, Victoria Civera, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Anh Duong, Judith Eisler, Tracey Emin, Ellen Gallagher, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Chantal Joffe, Deborah Kass, Maria Lassnig, Zoe Leonard, Sally Mann, Marilyn Minter, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Collier Schorr, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Hannah van Bart, Hellen van Meene, Kara Walker, Francesca Woodman and Lisa Yuskavage.
n a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness. Woman displayed as sexual object is the leit-motif of erotic spectacle: from pin-ups to striptease, from Ziegfeld to Busby Berkeley, she holds the look, plays to and signifies male desire.
This exhibition attempts to debunk the notion of the male gaze by providing a group of works in which the artist and subject do not relate as "voyeur" and "object," but as woman and woman. It would be interesting to ask the question how we would feel about the works in the exhibition if we were told they were made by a man. Until September 19.
Cheim & Read
547 W. 25th St., New York, NY 10011
nr. Eleventh Ave.
212-242-7727
AFTER COLOR
Nine contemporary artists who work with black-and-white photography and photo-based imagery. Their styles vary radically, but they all have a conceptual bent and very little interest in traditional photography. Some of the most interesting work—Talia Chetrit's hard-edged, computer-generated geometries; Matthew Camber's expressionist chalkboards; Arthur Ou's violently splattered seascapes—flirts with or actively engages abstraction. Stephen Gill's witty still-life studies mine the sculptural potential of discarded betting slips, and Adrien Missika, shooting the Grand Canyon through a tourist telescope, discovers ghostly new planets suspended in the void. Through Aug. 21. (Bose Pacia, 508 W. 26th St. 212-989-7074.)
http://www.bosepacia.com/current/
Monday, August 3, 2009
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